Oasis in a Gastronomic Wasteland
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

New Food Wednesday: July 27, 2011

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WTF, Ice Cream?  Not just any ice cream...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

Restaurant Review Monday: Café Berlin

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Boring… Clichéd… Vacuous… It would appear, at least to this reviewer, that the Grand Dame of Huntsville’s German culinary tradition ha...
Friday, July 22, 2011

Torta de Tres Leches

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(Easy Mexican Milk Cake) By: Sam Parks (July 2011) This easy American twist on a Latin classic, combines the richness of ice cream in the b...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

New Food Wednesday: July 20, 2011

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A slice of lemon ice box pie? Caramelized ginger cake? Some new genetic apple hybrid?
Monday, July 18, 2011

Restaurant Review Monday: Sun Café

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Sun Café Ste 3, 930 Old Monrovia Rd Huntsville, AL (256) 585-1394 Hours: Mon-Sun 11 a.m. – 9 p.m. Not the best…but not the worst…just th...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

Chocolate = Antichrist

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Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte   (Black Forest Cake) No. 2 (cake No. 1 found it's way into the garbage disposal) Chocolate is t...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

New Food Wednesday: July 13, 2011

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Peanuts with caramel sauce? Raisins with toffee? The latest flavor of ice cream from Ben & Jerry's? NOPE... It's the common J...
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Monday, July 11, 2011

Recipes: Semi-Sober Shepherds Pie

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Okay...So with double shifts at the Nook this past weekend (one on Monday and one on Saturday), the 4 th of July, and watching my parents...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Homebrewing Update

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Found this in the NY Times Food and Wine section today. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/garden/home-brewing-need-a-beer-hit-the-basement...

New Food Wednesday

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Thought I'd share this for today: Green worms?  Green Spaghetti? Alien Bivalves? Who knows... Read the blog post below from FoodBlogg...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Note from an Interesting Conversation...

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Occasionally for my day job I find myself reporting to the “Bureaucratic Mecca” of the known universe (aka Washington, D.C.).   Now as Hunts...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Recipes: Bitokes a lá Russe with Mornay Sauce (Frensh style hamburgers served with a cheese-cream sauce)

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BY: Samuel Parks (June 2011) Officially introduced to Americans by Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle in 1961 with their wor...
Monday, June 20, 2011

Tales of a Beer-Centric Dinner: “the delirious bovine”

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(Warning: this blog is not for the masses) First, let me apologize for the delay in posting this commentary.  As a government worker ...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

Notes from a Beer Tasting (Beer 101)

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Oasis in a Gastronomic Wasteland Chapter Two: Notes from a Beer Tasting (Warning: this blog is not for the masses) Hopefully today’s ent...
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Bureaucrat by profession...Guest chef for family friends on the weekend by choice. I'm just a guy who has always enjoyed food (sometimes too much). I hope you have as much fun reading about my culinary exploits as I enjoy writing about them! "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" -Benjamin Franklin (attrib.)
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